Battle of Zusmarshausen

The Battle of Zusmarshausen (17 May 1648) was a battle of the Thirty Years' War that occurred when a Franco-Swedish army of 26,000 troops under Carl Gustaf Wrangel and the Vicomte de Turenne ambushed and defeated an Imperial army of 10,000 troops under Peter Melander near Augsburg in Bavaria, southern Germany. The battle occurred during the Franco-Swedish invasion of Bavaria, which was almost completely overrun at that point in the war. The French captured several artillery pieces before joining forces with the Swedes, and the Austrian commander Peter Melander was killed. The Allied victory led to the decline of the Habsburg monarchy and the rise of France as a major military power, and it was one of the last battles fought during the Thirty Years' War.